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The Philadelphia Guide: Inpatient Pediatrics

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As a user of harrriet lane for years...This book goes beyond. As an easy to read, comprehensive resource for almost everything you will see as an inpatient house officer, I would recommend keeping it with you at all times. It is filled with all the questions you find yourself often looking up on those late night calls. It gives you the one line answers you are always looking for. It has information on conditions from the most basic to the most obscure and what you need to know about them. It provides answers to treatment, diagnosis, and guidelines.

Most of all it helps you treat patients, provide better care, and teach you at the same time. It includes chart, bold type, and subject heading formats. This book is AWESOME!!! Get yours today

The Philadelphia Guide: Inpatient Pediatrics fills a significant gap in practical pediatric texts. Harriet Lane has long been the standard, but is difficult to use, impractical at times, and incomplete. This book, which conveniently fits in a white coat pocket, is an indispensible resource for medical students and pediatric residents and fills the holes that Harriet leaves open. It give practical and complete, yet concise information on presentation and management of the diseases commonly encountered by the pediatric inpatient physician. As a new pediatric resident, this book has become the most indispensible resource in my pocket.

great quick reference for the "I need to know this now" type of information. An excellent job and excellent tool for teaching med students and residents

This is a great book for easy reading & covers all inpatient pediatric subjects you will encounter in house. I only wish the book was smaller for my lab coat's pocket!

I bought this book while I was doing a pediatric Sub-I, and I was amazed at how much information it has. Honestly it covers so much, but in a short enough manner that you can read up on your patients before rounds, etc. Now that I am in my peds residency, I use it all the time. The medical students that worked with my on wards said that it has "everything you're going to be pimped on." That's probably the most accurate description of this book! It has patho-physiology, clinical manifestations, differentials, and treatment plans. It's divided into systems, which are in alphabetical order, and each system's problems are also divided into ABC order, so you rarely need to use the index which is a big time saver. Most conditions fit on 1 to 2 pages. Very to the point. What else could you ask for? More and more of my peers are buying it, but I still leave mine on the nursing station, and very one uses it. Buy it! You'll be so glad you did!

The content is accessible and well organized for quick acquisition of knowledge for teaching students, residents and colleagues not to mention for the reader as well. The references are either classic or outdated. A lot of work and time went into the preparation of this book. Are the authors and editors planning to revise and publish a more recent edition?

Small, Pocket sized, but complete. It covers most of the things that you want to remember 'right now and in 5 minutes' in a way that will give you a full understanding on the what it is, how you'll see it and what to do. It takes you from pahtophysiological and genetic information to diagnosis, to what lab-work to ask, to how to treat in less than two pages in most of the cases. Personally I prefer it than Harriet. Harriet can be confusing at some points and can be too concise when you require a little more detail.

It lacks in two things : No pictures (so what, H-L doesn't have any either) and you don't get extensive tables of dosages for drugs. (that's why it is not as bulky as h-l)

It has saved me plenty and it isn't as expensive. I would totally recommend it to any pediatrics residency student. Even if you won't need it as much (because you feel you know everything =+P~ )It will look nice on your bookcase (it has a cute cover).

I would not be surprised if this becomes the next generation's Harriet Lane. You will not regret this purchase. I

was skeptical myself before I bought it, but now, I am glad I bought this book that no one in my residency

program had even heard of.

This book is a great reference book to carry along with you on the wards, especially for developing differential diagnoses.